Iron Jawed Angels

Questions Sheet
Name:
Video Discussion
•What time period is this movie in? Gilded Age or the Progressive Movement?
•Identify elements of race in the video.
•Identify elements of class in the video.
•What references are made in the movie to earlier women activists? List them below.
•What references are made to the Civil War?
•What role does World War I play in the movie?
•Track the different approaches used by the following:
Carrie Catt leader of the NAWSA vs. Alice Paul of the NWP
8) How were women destroying the system of stratification of the US?
•Defend the argument that race class and gender are (notice tense) linked and not isolated issues.
•Connect any issue today or a video we have watched in class.

Other Film Issues

18-1900
1. Attached to Anti-
Slavery
Movement
2. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony at Seneca Falls
3. AWSA and NWSA
4. Merging of AWSA and NWSA
5. Cult of
Domesticity
1900-1920
1. NAWSA and Carrie Catt trying to secure right to vote through state by state method
2. Enter Alice Paul and the creation of NWP

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns: Parade
Organizers and NWP
Rose Winslow
Inez Milholland

Parade

Carrie Catt and NAWSA
1. NAWSA leader
2. Believed an amendment to the Constitution was not possible

Ida B Wells
In 1884, when 22 and a teacher in Tennessee,
Wells-Barnett ignored a train conductor's order directing her to sit in a segregated car.
Editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free
Speech and Headlight
Documented lynchings across the country, and raised awareness challenging alleged white
"superiority."

Women and the West

Sheet Questions and Agree or Disagree

State by state strategy was the correct approach

Securing a Constitutional Amendment was the correct approach

Women are more likely to be supportive of the same political issues simply because they are women

Alice Paul was crazy

You would support Alice Paul

Rose Winslow
Ida B Wells
Seneca Falls
Racist Southerners
Temperance
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Purity Campaign
Susan B Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Abolitionist
Carrie Catt
Western States
Alice Paul
State by State Strategy
Woodrow Wilson
Comstock Law
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